Power Devices for Efficient Energy Conversion

✍ Scribed by Gourab Majumdar, Ikunori Takata

• Publisher: CRC Press LLC : Pan Stanford Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 347
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The growth of power electronics, centering on inverters and converters as its key system topology, has accelerated recently due to the demand for efficient power conversion. This growth has also been backed up by several evolutionary changes and breakthroughs achieved in the areas of power semiconductor device physics, process technology, and design. However, as power semiconductor technology remains a highly specialized subject, the literature on further research, development, and design in related fields is not adequate. With this in view, two specialists of power semiconductors, well known for their research and contributions to the field, compiled this book as a review volume focusing on power chip and module technologies. The prime purpose is to help researchers, academia, and engineers, engaged in areas related to power devices and power electronics, better understand the evolutionary growth of major power device components, their operating principles, design aspects, application features, and trends.

The book is filled with unique topics related to power semiconductors, including tips on state-of-the-art and futuristic-oriented applications. Numerous diagrams, illustrations, and graphics are included to adequately support the content and to make the book extremely attractive as a practical and user-friendly reference book for researchers, technologists, and engineers, as well as a textbook for advanced graduate-level and postgraduate students.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Era Predating the Birth of Power Semiconductor Devices
1.2 Dawn of Power Electronics
1.3 Japan's Leading Effort in Power Electronics
1.4 Chronology of Power Devices in the 1980s
1.5 Chronology of Power Modules in the 1980s
1.6 History of Recent Power Switching Semiconductors
1.7 Key Role of Power Devices for Efficient Power Conversion
1.7.1 Role of Devices in Power Amplification
1.7.2 Role of Devices in Power Switching Applications
1.7.2.1 Power losses by power switches in power conversion electronics Chapter 2 Basic Technologies of Major Power Devices2.1 Power Device Categories
2.2 Key Semiconductor Operation Principles
2.2.1 Essence of the Power Device
2.2.2 Characteristics of the Semiconductor
2.2.3 p-Type and n-Type Semiconductors
2.2.4 Potential Barrier between Regions Having Different Impurity Concentrations
2.3 Basic Operation of Power Devices
2.3.1 Reverse Voltage Blocking
2.3.2 Forward Conducting
2.3.3 Voltage-Holding Ability with Large Current: SOA
2.4 Diode Rectifiers
2.4.1 Diode Structures
2.4.2 Transient Operation of a pin Diode 2.4.3 Basic Operation of a pin Diode2.4.4 High-Voltage Large-Current Operation of a pin Diode
2.5 Fast-Recovery Diode for a Typical Freewheeling Function
2.5.1 Need for First-Recovery Diodes
2.5.2 Effect of Lifetime Control
2.5.3 Control Methods of the Lifetime
2.5.4 Various Recombination Models
2.5.5 Leakage Current Caused by Lifetime Killers
2.5.5.1 Pair generation leakage current
2.5.5.2 Diffusion leakage current
2.5.6 Interpretation of Observed JF-VF Characteristics
2.6 Devices of the Thyristor Family
2.6.1 Thyristor
2.6.2 GTO/GCT
2.7 Bipolar Junction Transistors 2.7.1 BJT Structures2.7.2 Basic Operation of the BJT
2.7.3 High-Voltage Large-Current Operation of the BJT
2.7.4 Safe Operating Area of the BJT
2.8 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors
2.9 Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors
2.9.1 IGBT Structures
2.9.2 Basic Operation of the IGBT
2.9.3 High-Voltage Large-Current Operation of the IGBT
2.9.4 Safe Operating Area of the IGBT
2.9.4.1 Observation of IGBT destructions
2.9.4.2 Destruction mechanism of real IGBTs
Chapter 3 Applied Power Device Family: Power Modules and Intelligent Power Modules 3.1 Review of the Power Module Concept and Evolution History3.2 Power Module Constructional Features and Design Aspects
3.2.1 Basic Aspects of Power Module Construction and Design
3.2.1.1 What are the characteristics required from a power module package?
3.2.1.2 What are the features and issues related to typical power module package designs?
3.2.2 Fundamentals of Power Module Structural Reliability and Life Endurance
3.3 State-of-the-Art Key Power Module Components
3.3.1 Dual-in-Line Intelligent Power Module
3.3.2 Intelligent Power Module

✦ Subjects

Power electronics.;Energy conversion.;Semiconductors.;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical.